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If I were nefarious I would attempt to login to websites with variations of pwned passwords and you would be one pwned trivial bullshit site away from having yo
by michaelmrose 3y ago
If I were nefarious I would attempt to login to websites with variations of pwned passwords and you would be one pwned trivial bullshit site away from having your entire digital life pwned. This form of security is worse than nothing because it gives a false assurance of security AND a false concept of ergonomics in one go.
99.9% of people are going to be unable to remember a reasonable number of variants that aren't trivially deterministic and once things are very similar to another its increasingly easy to confuse them.
You can sync your encrypted password vault between local devices and a remote resource which has access to the vault but not the key for same. At that point is very very hard to get pwned or lose access to anything. This was a solved problem 20 years ago.